It had the perfect amalgam of horror tropescrafted in such a way that felt as fresh and spine-tingling as classichaunted house movies did in the '80s. James Wan has proved himself a capable producer on projectssuch as Saw and Insidious, and with The Conjuring, he cemented himselfas a master of the genre. It combined every creepytrope you can think of (ghosts, dolls, music boxes, mirrors, you nameit), and it actually worked thanks to a genre-savvy director behind thecurtains. The Conjuring was a shocking horror film.
